Hammock



(No Model.) F. A. NELSON.

HAMMOGK.

Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

N. PETUIS. Pnowmmgnphnr. washington. n. C.

thermen STATES PATENT @Ferca FREDERICK A. NELSON, F WESTFIELD,MASSACHUSETTS.

HAMMOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,876, dated January2, 1883,

Application filed June 5, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom It may concern.- Y

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. NELsoN, of Westfield, in the county ofHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovementin Woven-Wire Hammocks, of which the following is aspecification and description.

The object of my invention is to provide a hammock made of woven wire,with each end secured to a suspending-bar adapted to have thesuspending-cords attached thereto, and with the two sides of the hammock,atits edges, elevated above the middle portion when the hammock isin its natural position when sus' pended; and I accomplish this by themeans substantially as hereinafter described, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a plan view of a hammockmade according to my invention. Fig. IIis a transverse section ot' thesame at line A of Fig. I.

e Fig.IiI is a longitudinal vertical section at line B of Fig. I,showing one modilicationot' securing the ends of the woven wire to thesuspending-bars. Fig. IV is a longitudinal vertical section at thesanieline,showing another modiiication of securing the endsof the wovenwire to the suspending-bars; and Fig. V is a plan view ofthe woven wire,showing substantially its form preparatory to being secured to the endsusl'iending-bars in order to give the side edges ofthe hammock a moreelevated position than its middle portion when suspended.

In the drawings, 4t represents a web, made of ordinary woven-wire,similar to the wovenwire mattresses in common use, but made ofa suitablewidth to be used as the ordinary cloth or netted hammocks. After the webis woven I make its middle portion longer than its two side edges, 5, inorder-to give to the web aconoave form on its upper side in itscross-section, to obviate the liability ofthe person occupying it toroll out on either side,and I may give this form to the web bystretching it after being woven, so that its ends will assume a curvedform. as shown in black lines in Fin. V, or an angular form, as shown indotted lines in the same figure. I then take a bar, as 1, one for eachend of the web, of any suitable form in its cross-section, and providedeither with a Y transverse external recess, as 2,near each end,

or with a ring or hook fastening, as 9, to which to secure thesuspending-cords, and I make a groove, as 6, in each bar, and secureeach end of the web in the said groove of its respective bar 1, with itsextreme edge straight and parallel with the edge of said groove, and Ithen force a binding cleat or rod, as 3, made to approximately it saidgroove, lirmly thereinto and against the end of the web, and secure itby nails or screws, so that the extreme end of the web is firmly clampedbetween the bed of the groove and the binding cleat or rod.

Each bar, as l, may be grooved to receive the end ofthe web and thebinding-cleat on the side toward the web, as shown in Fig. III, or theweb may be secured to the bar on the side of the latter opposite theweb, as shown in Fig. IV, in which case a longitudinal slot or opening,as 7, may be made through the bar 1, and the latter provided with agroove, as 6, and binding-cleat, as 3,011 its outside, and the end ofthe web may be passed through this slot Tand secured with its eXtremeedge straight and parallel with the cleat, the latter being forced intoits groove 6 on the outside of the bar and secured with nails or screws,as before, with the end of the web irmly clamped between thebinding-cleat 3 and the bed of the groove, as shown in Fig. IV. Bymakiugone or both ends ot' the wire web et of this curved or augularform, so that the middle portion of the web is longest, and thensecuringit in the bars, with its end edges straight, the side edges 5ofthe web are made shorter, to a greateror less degree, than its middleportion, and are therefore held at a higher elevation than the middleportion, and the web is given approximately the same concave or hollowform in its cross-section as is given tothe best cloth or nettedhammocks, and which is desirable to secure the greatest comfort to aperson occupyingthe hammock. y

If desired, the wire from which the web is Woven may be tinned,galvanized, or treated with any other desired preparation, in order toprotect it from the action of the weather and prevent its rusting.

It is evident that a hammock having its web made of woven wire, as abovedescribed, will he much more durable than a hammock made of any textilefabric, and is much more coinfortable for use, becanseitwillretainitsshape, and on account of the elevation ofits side edges above itsmiddle portion aperson occupying it; l mately concave form on its upperside when would be less liable to roll out at the side.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as newis- 1. Animproved hammock, consisting of a web made of Woven Wire and asuspending-bar secured to each end thereof, and provided with 'asteningsby which each said bar may be secured to cords to suspend the hammockfrom each end, substantially as described.

2. In an improved hammock, a web made of woven wire and havingitstwosideedges shorter than its middle portion, and secured at each end to asuspending-bar, whereby the web of the hammock will assume adishingorapproxi suspended by said hars at the ends, substantially asdescribed.

3. In an improved hammock, a woven-wire web, in combination with twosuspending-bars, one at each end of the web, and each bar provided witha longitudinal groove, and a. bind ing-cleat adapted to approximately bsaid groove and be secured therein to said bar to firmly clamp the endof the web to said bar, substantially as described.

FREDERICK A. NELSON.

Witnesses:

H. B. LEWIS, D. R. RISING.

